How do you fancy designing your very own custom fletchings? We’re excited to announce that, thanks to a new competition from Gateway Feathers, you can! Simply download the feather template here, and get creative with your designs. Send them to…
Design your own Gateway Feathers!
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World Championships – Who we’re watching
With historic Copenhagen as the venue, the 2015 World Championships in the heart of Denmark are forecast to be the best attended yet. At the time of writing, 623 archers from 96 national federations had been entered into the championships,…
Tagged with: compound, Copenhagen, Denmark, olympic, qualifying, quota, recurve, world archery, world championships
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Committee Nominations
World Archery has revealed the archers that will be standing for places on its athlete’s committee. World Archery Congress is held alongside the World Championships every two years, and at the Congress directly before an Olympic Games a new athlete…
Ask The Experts – Starting Instinctive
Q: I’m new to instinctive archery, having migrated over from Olympic style recurve and I must say that I’m loving it! The only trouble is that now, I’m not very accurate shooting this way. Is this something that will naturally improve…
Tagged with: experts, Grizzly Jim, instinctive, Merlin Archery, recurve, training
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Ask The Experts – Bright Arrows
Q: I started shooting instinctively but I now have problems with maintaining my concentration on the target. I group arrows well when I shoot paper faces but when I rove or shoot 3D my groups spread badly. A: Yes,…
Ask The Experts – Fletching ‘Wings’
Q: I’ve heard a lot recently about the ‘wing’ of the fletchings. Does it matter if the left or right turn is used? And is one or the other preferable for a right or left handed archer? A: Sometimes archers believe that…
Strings and Strategies
Recurve engineer George Tekmitchov looks at the development of string materials, and how to get the best out of yours The bowstring is one of the three fundamental components of any modern recurve bow. Limbs, riser, and the string are…
Tagged with: blends, Dyneema, George Tekmitchov, maintenance, materials, serving, Spectra, strand count, strings, twist rate, Vectran
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Outdoor Championships
The World Archery Outdoor Championships – due to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, later this year – have received so many entries that the governing body is having to allocate practice sessions. It has urged all teams to submit arrival…
Beating the Field
Liam Grimwood brings you his top tips to getting a head start in field archery if you’re already an experienced target shot Now that the outdoor season is here it’s time to give some thought to the type of archery you’ll…
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Posted in Technique
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New divisions for Donaueschingen
Visually impaired divisions will compete at the World Archery Para Championships in Donaueschingen later this year for the first time since 2009. Archers from three countries are already registered to shoot in VI1 and VI2/3 categories, with classification by officials…
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